History:Kingdom of Kapisi
The Kingdom of Kapisi was located in what is now Afghanistan.[when?] The kingdom stretched from the Hindu Kush in the north to Bamiyan and Kandahar in the south and west, out as far as Jalalabad District in the east.[1] The kingdom was, for a time,[when?] under the Turk Shahi house.[2] The Kingdom of Kapisi was, in the Chinese chronicles Book of Sui, associated with the Kingdom of Cao.[3]
Around 600 AD, the Chinese Buddhist monk Xuanzang made a pilgrimage to Kapisi, and described there the cultivation of rice and wheat, and a king of the Suli tribe. In his chronicle, he relates that in Kapisi were over 6,000 monks of a heretical sect of the Mahayana school of Buddhism.[4]
At one point, Bagram was the capital of the kingdom, though in the 7th century, the center of power of Kapisi shifted to Kabul.[5]
References
- ↑ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan, Volumes 4-6. Asiatic Society of Pakistan, 1959.[1]
- ↑ Buddha Prakash . Glimpses of ancient Panjab. Sita Ram Kohli memorial lectures. Punjabi University, Dept. of Punjab Historical Studies, 1966 [2]
- ↑ Gandhāran Buddhism: archaeology, art, texts. Asian religions and society series. Pia Brancaccio, Kurt A. Behrendt. UBC Press, 2006. ISBN:0-7748-1080-7, ISBN:978-0-7748-1080-7 [3]
- ↑ Dust in the wind: retracing Dharma Master Xuanzang's Western pilgrimage. Rhythms Monthly, 2006. ISBN:986-81419-8-2, ISBN:978-986-81419-8-8 [4]
- ↑ Giovanni Verardi, Elio Paparatti. Buddhist caves of Jāghūrī and Qarabāgh-e Ghaznī, Afghanistan. Volume 2 of Reports and. IsIAO, 2004. ISBN:88-85320-22-8, ISBN:978-88-85320-22-2 [5]
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